Rocketboom Founder Puts His Twitter Account On Sale
How much is a Twitter account with nearly 1,500 followers worth? Rocketboom founder Andrew Baron wants to find out, and launches a publicity stunt that will spark a debate about trust and privacy: He...
The Great Conversation Migration: Go With The Flow
Louis Gray has posted some thoughts that have caused the question about the appropriate locus for web commentary to boil up again: … This is closely related to the conversation moving from blogs to Tw...
Download YouTube Videos as MP4 Files
An interesting side-effect of YouTube's recent push for higher quality videos is that most videos can be downloaded as MP4 files directly from YouTube. Until now, you could only get FLV files from yo...
Secret of the iPlayer's Success: No DRM
It's been a great week for the BBC's iPlayer project: The Beeb has just announced that the iPlayer is now attracting 550,000 daily views on average. The iPlayer is also now officially available on th...
It Takes a Cyber Village to Catch an Auto Thief
EARLY on the afternoon of March 26, two young men visited Heritage Auto Sales, a specialty dealership in Calgary, Alberta. They asked to test-drive a dark gray 1991 Nissan Skyline GT-R, a performance...
Advertising for bloggers has to change
Disclaimer: I doubt very much that this post will be of any interest to those bloggers out there who blog for the self-professed joy of blogging itself, or to any blogger who feels that advertising ha...
NBC uses site engagement specialist Bunchball to keep Web users glued
Technorati — Facebook — Digg — As anyone trying to make money off the Internet knows, keeping eyeballs on a Web site as long as possible is critical. — That concept, known in the business as “...
The Adolescence of the Blogosphere
There is something going on in the tech blogosphere and while in the age of journalism some might consider bloggers as nothing more than snotty nosed little upstarts who think they know it all. In th...